Trump

[underguy1]

Bernie is NOT FDR, he's not even Truman.
Bernie is Hil(l?)ary without the cuntness...which is why he has been a nothing back bencher, and why he didn't get the nomination.

The oligarchs want to continue to dismantle the New Deal. That's why he will be denied the nomination.

 

[JackLuis]

Again with the racism?

You drones for Hillary are a bunch of real charmers aren't you?

Oh it's not racism, it's regionalism and lack of understanding the new media. Pilot does not think that anyone beyond the Blue Ridge Mts. has a right to any idea that disturbs his feathered nest of intellectual superiority.

we humor him a bit because he's "special." He is also OLD and doesn't comprehend the rapidity of news distribution beyond the teletype he used in his CIA days.

He is quite liberal sexually as I understand, so he does have his points, if you like that sort of thing.

 

[underguy1]

Oh it's not racism, it's regionalism and lack of understanding the new media. Pilot does not think that anyone beyond the Blue Ridge Mts. has a right to any idea that disturbs his feathered nest of intellectual superiority.

we humor him a bit because he's "special." He is also OLD and doesn't comprehend the rapidity of news distribution beyond the teletype he used in his CIA days.

He is quite liberal sexually as I understand, so he does have his points, if you like that sort of thing.

Being condescended to by idiots is a trying reality of internet life. There's no idiot like an educated authoritarian idiot stuck in the establishment propaganda bubble.

 

[sr71plt]

Again with the racism?

You drones for Hillary are a bunch of real charmers aren't you?

What in the hell do you mean by racism? (Speaking of being a real charmer.)

 

[underguy1]

What in the hell do you mean by racism? (Speaking of being a real charmer.)

Obtuse much?

 

[someoneyouknow]

As a follow up to yesterday's story, we now know how Trump makes his money. He doesn't pay people for their work:

According to an investigation by USA Today published Thursday and a similar investigation by The Wall Street Journal published later in the day on Thursday, Trump's companies are facing hundreds of claims that Trump has stiffed people he contracted with for decades.

. . .

USA Today cited numerous examples, including a case as recent as last month in which a Miami-Dade County Circuit Court judge ordered Trump's company to pay a paint supply company more than $30,000 by the end of this month or face foreclosure of the Trump National Doral Miami golf club. According to The Miami Herald, The Paint Spot claimed Trump has owed them the money since 2014.

. . .

In another case, the Philadelphia cabinet business of Edward Friel Jr. was never paid more than $83,000 for work completed in 1984, the weight of which Friel's son said started the fall of the company.

. . .

The court records showed not only a pattern of not paying, but also of Trump companies tying up small businesses and individuals in lengthy legal dealings until they either settle, give up or sometimes go out of business altogether.


http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/10/politics/donald-trump-unpaid-bills-reports/index.html

 

[someoneyouknow]

As a follow up, the New York Times has a very good piece on how Trump siphoned millions from his casinos for his personal wealth while repeatedly piling on high interest debt and lying to regulators. Some tidbits:

Mr. Trump assembled his casino empire by borrowing money at such high interest rates — after telling regulators he would not — that the businesses had almost no chance to succeed.

His casino companies made four trips to bankruptcy court, each time persuading bondholders to accept less money rather than be wiped out. But the companies repeatedly added more expensive debt and returned to the court for protection from lenders.

After narrowly escaping financial ruin in the early 1990s by delaying payments on his debts, Mr. Trump avoided a second potential crisis by taking his casinos public and shifting the risk to stockholders.

And he never was able to draw in enough gamblers to support all of the borrowing. During a decade when other casinos here thrived, Mr. Trump’s lagged, posting huge losses year after year. Stock and bondholders lost more than $1.5 billion.

All the while, Mr. Trump received copious amounts for himself, with the help of a compliant board. In one instance, The Times found, Mr. Trump pulled more than $1 million from his failing public company, describing the transaction in securities filings in ways that may have been illegal, according to legal experts.

. . .

And the most important which relates back to yesterday's article about Trump not paying people for work they did for him:

“He put a number of local contractors and suppliers out of business when he didn’t pay them,” said Steven P. Perskie, who was New Jersey’s top casino regulator in the early 1990s. “So when he left Atlantic City, it wasn’t, ‘Sorry to see you go.’ It was, ‘How fast can you get the hell out of here?’”

Read more:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/12/nyregion/donald-trump-atlantic-city.html

 

[SEVERUSMAX]

Sweet Pluto, the Feds convicted and removed former Governor J. Fife Symington of Arizona for less than that! Mind you, Governor Symington was a dick while a politician, so it was no great loss.

 

[JackLuis]

Mitt Romney rips Trump’s ‘trickle down racism, trickle down bigotry, trickle down misogyny’

What does "Mr. Republican" think about Trump?

Former Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney slammed Donald Trump’s current run in no uncertain terms in an interview aired on Friday by CNN.

“I don’t want to see a president of the United States saying things which change the character of the generations of Americans that are following,” Romney told host Wolf Blitzer. “Presidents have an impact on the nature of our nation, and trickle-down racism, trickle-down bigotry, trickle-down misogyny, all these things are extraordinarily dangerous to the heart and character of America.”

The former Massachusetts governor went so far as to say he would consider voting for the Libertarian candidate, Gary Johnson.

“If Bill Weld were at the top of the ticket, it would be very easy for me to vote for Bill Weld for president,” Romney said. “So I’ll get to know [Johnson] better and see if he’s someone who I could end up voting for. That’s something which I’ll evaluate over the coming weeks and months.”

However, Romney said that he would neither enter the race himself, or vote for Hillary Clinton, the likely Democratic Party nominee.

“Isn’t that copping out of your responsibility?” Blitzer asked.

“My responsibility is to express to the American people what I believe is right about the potential nominee of the party,” Romney replied. “I did so very plainly and clearly, and the people who made the choice decided to go a different direction. That’s their right. But as an individual I simply can’t put my name down as someone who voted for principles that suggest racism or xenophobia, misogyny, bigotry, who’s been vulgar time and time again.”

Mit thinks Trump is a small fingered vulgarian?

 

[SEVERUSMAX]

Wow, Mitt. Don't hold back. Tell us what you really think!

 

[sr71plt]

Wow, Mitt. Don't hold back. Tell us what you really think!

What was more fun was watching one of Trump's bimbos trying to wipe the effect away on CNN early this afternoon.

 

[RjThoughts]

Daniel Suarez wins in Michigan this afternoon.
Trump will be whining about how he took this win away from a great American!

 

[JackLuis]

Trumpinistias like the fact that the Donald lets it all hang out.

http://a.disquscdn.com/uploads/mediaembed/images/3780/9226/original.jpg?w=600&h

Eye Bleach is only $25.

 

[NOIRTRASH]

Mitt then moved on to dissing all of Trumps opponents as inept losers. Made lotsa friends.

 

[NOIRTRASH]

The Revolution is on.

 

[L1tTleD1fferent]

Mitt then moved on to dissing all of Trumps opponents as inept losers.

It's what I call "the TIE rule": Timing Is Everything.

Mitt lost to Dem last election, Trump & most opponents (all GOP candidates) will do the same this year, but haven't yet.

 

[Beco]

Wow, Mitt. Don't hold back. Tell us what you really think!

Why is Mitt still attracting attention?

 

[L1tTleD1fferent]

Why is Mitt still attracting attention?

"No such thing as bad publicity" (which Mitt & Trump have both disproved).

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

*tip of the hat, to the original, who posted about this article*

"One of the senator’s supporters secured Pocahontas.com and redirected it to Warren’s campaign site."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...p-table-main_trumpwarren-630pm:homepage/story


http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box...ascom-redirects-to-elizabeth-warrens-campaign

 

[BotanyBoy]

"No such thing as bad publicity" (which Mitt & Trump have both disproved).

Actually Trump backed that up....

He's been saying all manner of insane shit and he won because of it.

He might even skull fuck Clinton with it.

 

[sr71plt]

"No such thing as bad publicity" (which Mitt & Trump have both disproved).

That sounds nice, but, as you indicate, it doesn't really hold true. (Dennis Hastert could be asked that question.)

I was just thinking that Trump had better win the White House or he might as well buy himself an island in the South Pacific to retire to. His laundry is being hung out for everyone to see--and rather suddenly. Hillary has lived with the laundry airing for decades and is steeled to it. Trump's ego is too fragile to survive all of this--especially as an election loser. If he loses--like people waking up enough so that he wins no states at all (a possibility if Gary Johnson comes in and slices 20 percent of the electorate out)--he'll be laughed at at every turn for the rest of his life. I think what's going to come out of all the scrutiny is that he actually has more debt than he has assets and it's all been smoke and mirrors. If he hadn't jumped into this ring, he would still be a mythical icon of some sort (not my sort, though).

 

[underguy1]

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Assuming that Trump really means to win, Hillary is no certainty to beat by any stretch of the imagination.

I have my doubts about whether his intent is to win or he's there to ensure La Clinton gets the gig.

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

The pity of it all, is that no matter how many facts, figures, reports, reveal the horror that Trump truly is, Trump's supporters will not see them.

They do not want to see under the paper thin disguise.

Each Trump supporter has what they want.

Even though it is not real.

What is the sensible, intelligent, thoughtful Republican to do ?

I am sure that they are hoping that something will happen, to give them a chance to vote for someone other than Trump.

 

[sr71plt]

The edges are starting to peel on that and we have several months to go. His Richmond rally yesterday didn't turn out a big crowd.

 

[BotanyBoy]

The pity of it all, is that no matter how many facts, figures, reports, reveal the horror that Trump truly is, Trump's supporters will not see them.

They do not want to see under the paper thin disguise.

Same could be said for St.Hillary and her fan club.